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Number Of Accidents (Estimate): 1,661
See also: Other years, Other products, Other body parts.
National Electronic Injury Surveillance System Accidents Records
| Date: 12/20/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEFT RIB FX.PT FELL INTO A TRASH CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/18/2007 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL HITTING CHEST ON DUMPSTER DX: CONTUSION TO CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/14/2007 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RIBS FXS-FELL WHILE TAKING GARBAGE CAN TO CURB-@ HOME |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/12/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SLIPPED AND FELL ONTO METAL GARBAGE CAN. DX: CHEST CONT, POSS RIB FX. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 12/09/2007 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 60 YO MALE FELL INTO DUMPSTER CHEST INJURY |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 12/02/2007 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TAKING OUT THE GARBAGE FELL FX RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/24/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT REACHED INTO A DUMPSTER. DX: L RIB CAGE MUSCLE STRAIN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/21/2007 | Age: 43 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| LEFT CHEST CONTUSION-SLIPPED AND FELL OUTSIDE STRIKING CHEST ON A DUMPS TER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/15/2007 | Age: 52 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT THROWING TRASH INTO A DUMPSTER AND SLIPPED STRIKING CHEST AGAINST THE SIDE OF THE DUMPSTER FRACTURED RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/10/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| THORACIC STRAIN - PICKED UP HEAVY TRASH CAN YESTERDAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 11/09/2007 | Age: 38 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT SUSTAINED CONTUSION TO CHEST WALL AFTER FALLING ON A GARBAGE PAIL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/18/2007 | Age: 46 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL AGAINST A WASTE CONTAINER AND HAS A RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 10/08/2007 | Age: 96 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 96 YO TRIPPED FELL STRIKING CHEST ON TRASH CAN CONTUSION CHEST WALL |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/21/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 53YOM ATTEMPTING TO DUMP KITTY LITER INTO A DUMPSTER,LOST BALANCE, STRUCK LEFT SIDE AGAINST DUMPSTER;RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/08/2007 | Age: 42 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Inter Organ Injury |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Containers |
| PT WAS REACHING OVER INTO A DUMPSTER TO GET A BOX WHEN THE DUMPSTER LID FELL ONTO HIM SUSTAINED IOI CHEST AND RUPTURED SPLEEN |
| Disposition: Treated and admitted for hospitalization (within same facility) |
| Date: 09/08/2007 | Age: 48 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RT RIB CONTUSION,CS.PT WAS STANDING ON A DUMPSTER AND FELL OFF. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/04/2007 | Age: 16 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PATIENT HAD A SLIP AND FALL AT A *** BANK, WAS WALKING ONA WET SURFACE & FELL ONTO A TRASH CAN. DX-LT CHEST WALL RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 09/03/2007 | Age: 53 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Street or highway | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL ON DUMPSTER AT 11TH STREET CHEST CONTUSION CH |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/28/2007 | Age: 75 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT MOVING GARBAGE CAN FELL ONTO TO CHEST AT HOME TODAY DX// CHEST CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/24/2007 | Age: 22 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL BACKWARDS LANDING ON TRASH CAN C/O UPPER BACK PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/19/2007 | Age: 60 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 60YOM ACCIDENTLY FELL ,HITTING CHEST OFF STEEL GARBAGE CAN AT HOME; RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 08/12/2007 | Age: 44 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 44 YO MALE LIFTED DUMPSTER CHEST WALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/31/2007 | Age: 20 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL 1 WEEK PTA AND LANDED ON EDGE OF DUMPSTER DX: 2 RIB FX'S |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/14/2007 | Age: 54 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT HAD RIB PX AFTER TRYING TO RETRIEVE SOMETHING FROM GARBAGE DUMPSTER LAST PM. DX: RIB CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 07/12/2007 | Age: 15 months | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Laceration |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT DX LACERATION OF BACK - S/P PT CUT IN CERAMIC TRASH CAN AT HOME TODAY. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/26/2007 | Age: 50 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| FELL INTO TRASH CAN AND CONTUSED CHEST |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/25/2007 | Age: 47 years | Sex: Female | Race: Other |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT'S FOOT SLIPPED WHILE CLIMBING INTO DUMPSTER AT ST VINCENT DE PAUL. DX: RIB CONT. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/23/2007 | Age: 25 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT FELL INTO A RECYCLE BIN ON WEDNESDAY,C/O R RIB PAIN DX RIB BRUISE |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/20/2007 | Age: 89 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT LIFTING UP HER RECYCLE BIN AND STRAINED HER CHEST MUSCLES |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 06/11/2007 | Age: 9 years | Sex: Male | Race: Other |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| TRASH CAN FELL ONTO PT - HIT CHEST AND ARM. D: CONTUSION RIGHT UPPER CHEST AND SHOULDER |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/31/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT STATES HURTING RIBS WHEN REACHING IN DUMPSTER TO GET STUFF DX: CHESTWALL PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/28/2007 | Age: 37 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins, Alcohol |
| PATIENT WAS INEBRIATED 2 DAYS AGO AND FELL BACKWARDS ONTO A TRASH CAN AFTER SITTING ON HER BED STRIKING HER BACK. DX-RT RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/15/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT HAD FALL INTO DUMPSTER ONE WEEK AGO. WAS GETTING SOMETHING OUT OF DU MPSTER WHEN HAND SLIPPED & HE FELL. RIB PAIN. D: CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/13/2007 | Age: 41 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RIB FRACTURE,ETOH.PT FELL OVER A TRASH CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 05/04/2007 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| DUMPSTER ROLLED INTO CHEST. DX; RIB FRACTURE, CHEST CONTUSION. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/22/2007 | Age: 88 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Other public property | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| BENDING OVER DUMPSTER INJURED RIB AREA HEARD POP...CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/21/2007 | Age: 64 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CHEST CT-FELL AGAINST GARBAGE CAN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 04/06/2007 | Age: 63 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| PT TRIPPED AND FELL OVER A WASTE BASKET DX: RT RIB CONTUSION |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2007 | Age: 35 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CHEST WALL CONTUSION.PT FELL INTO A DUMPSTER. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 03/01/2007 | Age: 45 years | Sex: Female | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CHEST WALL CON TUSION.PT FELL IN TO A GARBAGE CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/22/2007 | Age: 79 years | Sex: Male | Race: Black/African American |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| RIB CONTUSION.PT HIT CHEST ON A TRASH CAN. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/18/2007 | Age: 77 years | Sex: Female | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Fracture |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| SLIPPED ON ICE EMPTYING TRASH IN TRASH CAN FRACTURE LEFT 8TH RIB |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 02/05/2007 | Age: 36 years | Sex: Male | Race: Not stated in ER record |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Contusion Or Abrasion |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| DX CHEST CONTUSION: FELL TAKING TRASH CAN OUT AND FELL AGAINST EDGE. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/27/2007 | Age: 51 years | Sex: Male | Race: White |
| Location: Not recorded | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Other |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| 51 YO MALE WAS PUSHED A DUMPSTER ON WHEELS CHEST PAIN |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
| Date: 01/06/2007 | Age: 31 years | Sex: Female | Race: White |
| Location: Home | Fire: No fire involvement or fire involvement not recorded |
| Body part: Upper Trunk | Diagnosis: Strain, Sprain |
| Product: Waste containers, trash baskets or refuse bins |
| CHEST WALL STRAIN.PT HAD A TRASH CAN FALL ON CHEST. |
| Disposition: Treated and released or examined and released without treatment |
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